Hello and welcome back. This is episode number 153. This is King of the Ride podcast. I'm your host,

Ted King. Now, I feel like there is something inherent in being human with the desire to go faster.

And I don't mean just hell-bent speed. I mean a desire to improve, a desire to get better,

a desire to gain efficiency to move through the world more quickly.

So let's just say, for example, let's say you get into a sport,

let's choose, I don't know, cycling, for example.

You go for a ride, you ride that particular route again and

again and again. And in time, you want to see how you can ride it faster to beat your old time,

to better yourself. Maybe you get into racing and competition. And once again, you're suddenly

in the midst of competition, only racing yourself but others.

Suddenly you're towing the line, the start line of a 4,000-person gravel event.

What on earth is happening, you're thinking?

All I wanted to do is get into cycling.

Well, here we are.

It's natural to want to go faster.

And that's the crux of this entire conversation.

Jan Heine is the owner of Renee Hurst Cycles.

He is our guest today, my tire sponsor.

He's a friend and trusted resource over the past many years, a sounding board for me in the cycling world.

And so many of our conversations are about contemporary gravel, about racing gravel, what people,

my competition, what everybody's using to make themselves faster.

Some of the tips and tricks, the macro and the macro, all the cumulative things to go faster.

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